Twitter Real Time Search

CrowdEye, one of the new Twitter-based real-time search engines that has launched this year, has just upgraded its service with several new features that will remind you of … Google? It’s true. The service now includes a PageRank-like measurement system, a customizable home page (sorta like iGoogle), and the ability to perform site: searches like you would on Google. Here’s a look at the new features announced today:

Personalized Home Page

CrowdEye users can now customize their home page with content about their favorite sites. I could, for example, set up my home page to show tweets about Search Engine Land and the most tweeted articles from Search Engine Land. I can also save my favorite CrowdEye search queries to my home page. It might make an excellent reputation management dashboard of sorts for users who want to monitor tweets and links about certain companies, keywords, and so forth.

CrowdEye Rank

In today’s announcement, CrowdEye co-founder Ken Moss calls this his site’s version of Google’s PageRank. CrowdEye says this ranking system adds relevance to its search results by measuring a Twitter account’s influence. You’ll see the CrowdEye Rank of users across the site, including in search results like this: